Two awesome (for me!) pieces of news today.

First up, my book Secrets of the Dragon Tomb, and its sequel, The Emperor of Mars, have been resold for publication in Germany. They’re going to be published by Loewe Verlag. I have absolutely no details about when the books will be out (or really anything else, for that matter), but it is so cool that the books are being translated into German. I did three years of German at school and lived in Vienna for six months, so I’m going to make an attempt to read it in the German. Mind you, my German is kinda rusty.

It’s all completely cool and completely unexpected.

Second up, if you like flash fiction, I have my very short story Five Things of Beauty up as a podcast at Toasted Cake. It’s only about five minutes long.

This is the opening:

The morning after Vaidwattie left, Srilal found the first thing of beauty. It was lying on the damp pavement outside his house, where a thousand boots trod every day. The first thing of beauty was an origami bird so delicate and fine that when Srilal lifted it on the palm of his hand, he thought it might fly away.

Go listen to it! :)

So, I must admit I have no idea what to work on next.

Right now, I’m waiting on the editorial letter for Secrets of the Dragon Tomb. I’ve also turned in the sequel, The Emperor of Mars, so at some point I suppose I’ll get an editorial letter for that too.

I’ve also got the first draft of another, unrelated middle grade novel, and the first draft of yet another novel, which will probably turn out to be for adults.

I see an awful lot of revising novels in my future, but to be honest, I feel like I’ve been revising novels for ages. I know some people love revising, but after a while, I’ve gotta say, I want to write something new.

But then if I write something new, I’ll have to revise that too. Aaaaaarrrrrgh!

Ahem.

This week, both Steph and I are working on auditions for freelance work. In fact, we’re both working on auditions for the same piece of freelance work, which makes things a wee bit competitive around here. I have proposed that if one of us wins the work, they will buy the other a ‘How to Write’ book as a consolation prize. Shockingly, the suggestion was not met with a great deal of pleasure…

Anyway, after this week, I’ve got an open schedule, and I need to do something. Just not sure what.

So, who’s got a great idea? And can I do it without having to revise anything?